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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 15.555556297302246px; text-align: left;">Meditation is the art of cleaning your mirror from all the dust that the society, the religion, the educational system has poured on you, to take away everything that has not been born with you, to bring you to your absolute innocence as you were born as a child.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 15.555556297302246px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 15.555556297302246px; text-align: left;">- Osho</span></div>
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Things don't bother you anymore. You become light-hearted and full of joy. The
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This year, they couldn’t find one. Then Vicki walked into Papertown on Spring Forest Road and learned about a Spring Hope family and their baby, Michael.</span></span></div></div></div><div id="story_body" style="background-color: #b5d1d7; border: 0px; color: #5b5b58; font-family: Futura, 'Century Gothic', AppleGothic, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div id="story_text_top" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; min-height: 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">His full name is Michael Ronnie Anselmo. He was born Aug. 30 and is named for his father. What would ordinarily be a joyous occasion was marred for Anselmo and his wife, Bri Gunn. Baby Michael was born with hypoplastic left heart syndrome, or HLHS for short.</div><div style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 1em; min-height: 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The left side of Michael’s heart isn’t working, and he has had two operations already to make sure that the right side can handle the workload for the whole heart.</div></div><div id="story_assets" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div id="featured_assets" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div id="cycleSlideShow" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div id="cycleSlides" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="photo-entry" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="photo-image" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="thickbox" href="http://media.northraleighnews.com/smedia/2012/10/20/20/59/8wRPK.St.43.jpeg" id="IMG-19136" rel="story-images" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; color: #6187a1; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Baby Michael Anselmo was born with only one side of his heart working and has needed multiple surgeries. "><img alt="GGE64MGBJ.2" class="imageCycle" height="200" src="http://media.northraleighnews.com/smedia/2012/10/20/20/59/8wRPK.Em.43.jpeg" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; height: auto; margin: 4px 0px; max-width: 737px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" /></a></div><div class="photo-caption" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Baby Michael Anselmo was born with only one side of his heart working and has needed multiple surgeries.</div></div></div></div></div><div id="more_photos" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="asset_heading" href="http://www.northraleighnews.com/2012/10/20/19138/good-samaritans-help-baby-fighting.html#" id="morePhotos" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; color: #6187a1; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">CLICK FOR MORE PHOTOS</a></div><div id="more_assets" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div></div><div id="story_text_remaining" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; min-height: 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">He’ll be going home Monday with a feeding tube. Then the week before Christmas, Anselmo and Gunn will bring him back for a surgery to install a bigger stent.</div><div style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; min-height: 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">After that, if everything goes OK, Michael will come back when he is 2 to have one more stent put in. By then, Anselmo says, he hopes they can get Michael a heart transplant. But doctors won’t put Michael on a transplant list until after his Christmas surgery, and then Anselmo doesn’t have any idea how long it will be before his baby receives a new heart.</div><div style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; min-height: 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“The situation this baby’s in, a miracle may happen, and you pray for it, but you automatically know what kind of stress that family’s under and how the medical bills must be mounting up,” Vicki said.</div><div style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; min-height: 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">To make matters worse, Gunn is suffering from post-partum depression and is unable to care for the baby or herself. Her husband is shouldering the responsibility for the whole family, which means he had to leave behind his construction business and the income it provided.</div><div style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; min-height: 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“It’s hard, but like I told the doctors here, I don’t really have time to process it,” Anselmo said. “I have to be here to make sure he’s taken care of, and the wife is taken care of.”</div><div style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; min-height: 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Vicki and Brian will hold a fundraiser for the family Nov. 3. The Allisons have invited neighbors, friends and customers from Brian’s tree business, and they will all gather, eat hamburgers and hot dogs, listen to music, watch a magic show, hold a raffle and take donations. It’s part of a yearly ritual that grew out of odd beginnings.</div><div style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; min-height: 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“Originally it was because I was married to somebody else and the marriage was not very good,” Brian Allison said.</div><div style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; min-height: 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">It took three years to get his divorce finalized, and when the paperwork finally went through, Allison decided to have a party. That party was so fun that he repeated it year after year. Eventually, he decided the party should be used to give back.</div><div style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; min-height: 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">They help someone different each year. Once it was a young girl with cystic fibrosis. Another year, someone dying of brain cancer.</div><div style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; min-height: 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Allison said he was inspired by an incident in his childhood. He grew up poor, and he can remember his family’s car breaking down. His mom made it to the mechanic’s, but they didn’t have any money for repairs or a place to stay for the night. They were planning to sleep in the car. Then an employee at the shop stepped in, gave them money for food, rented them a hotel room and took care of their car.</div><div style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; min-height: 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“It’s a good feeling for me, and a lot of times I reflect back to that guy who helped us who didn’t know us from anything,” Allison said.</div><div style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; min-height: 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">So, every year Allison looks for a stranger and lends a helping hand.</div><div style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; min-height: 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Anselmo and his family certainly fit that bill. Until Medicaid kicked in a couple of weeks ago, they had no insurance for baby Michael’s bills. Even with Medicaid, they will be saddled with a $28,000 bill. Anselmo said that if it weren’t for Medicaid, after the next surgery, they would owe considerably more. He quoted me a cost in the low millions.</div><div style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; min-height: 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“I would be in financial devastation until the day I die,” he said.</div><div style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; min-height: 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">It’s hard, Anselmo said. With the exception of good Samaritans like the Allisons, not many people are willing to cut you a break.</div><div style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; min-height: 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“Unfortunately, they don’t care whether your son is fighting for his life or not,” Anselmo said. “Mortgage still wants their mortgage payment, and the car people still want their car payment.”</div><div style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; min-height: 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Anselmo is planning other fundraisers as well. Papertown is having one now, and anybody interested in helping baby Michael can learn more at his Facebook page:<a href="http://www.facebook.com/www.giveforward.comlittlefighter" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; color: #6187a1; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">www.facebook.com/www.giveforward.comlittlefighter</a>.</div><div style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; min-height: 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Anselmo’s sister has also started a fundraising page at <a href="http://www.giveforward.com/littlefighter" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; color: #6187a1; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">www.giveforward.com/littlefighter</a>.</div><div style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; min-height: 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“We’re trying to do whatever we can to try not to lose everything,” Anselmo said.</div><div style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; min-height: 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">With a little help from some people who don’t know them from anything, Anselmo and Gunn might succeed.</div><div style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 1em; min-height: 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="endnote_contrib" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Alex Granados writes about people, places and traditions in North Raleigh and beyond. 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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">The Earth Is My Church</span></span></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">by Periel Marr Stanfield, Alex Beroza & Brad Stanfield</span></span></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">When I put on my Sunday best</span></span></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I proceed to get undressed</span></span></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">My holy temple requires no clothes</span></span></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">No high heels, no pantyhose</span></span></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I’m not trying to be malicious</span></span></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Heretical or sacrilegious</span></span></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I’m not an atheist, it’s just the reverse</span></span></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I’m a human soul on a spiritual search</span></span></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">The earth is my church</span></span></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">The earth is my church</span></span></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">The earth is my church</span></span></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">The earth comes first</span></span></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I don’t need no preacher man</span></span></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">No Sunday school, no master plan</span></span></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">No fiery hell, no mighty sword</span></span></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">No oxy-moronic “holy” wars</span></span></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I don’t have to bash the bible</span></span></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">All I need for my survival</span></span></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Is the sun, the sea, the sky, the dirt</span></span></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">And that’s the whole story, chapter and verse</span></span></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">The earth is my church</span></span></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">The earth is my church</span></span></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">The earth is my church</span></span></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">The earth comes first</span></span></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">At one with nature’s innocence</span></span></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">The dolphins and the elephants</span></span></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I kiss the trees, embrace the sky</span></span></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I harmonize with the butterflies</span></span></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Freedom is the final fruition</span></span></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Of the fate of the human condition</span></span></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Corruption of religion is history’s curse </span></span></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Universal love’s the only vision of worth</span></span></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">The earth is my church</span></span></b></span></span></span></div>
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</div>CG Waltershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08317264780952002355noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6927264920437167058.post-28749166868039769622012-03-17T17:19:00.001-04:002012-03-17T17:19:50.822-04:00The Mystic's Path<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';"><span class="Apple-style-span">The mystic's path is any gateway so perfectly aligned to your core nature that it draws you into perfect union with All via complete immersion into a single experience or focus. Romantic love can be such a viable path....to become so unified with one's beloved to the point of the experience becoming communion with the Beloved.</span></span></span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;"><br /></span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I have to be careful not to assess actions as if there was some objective correlation between any deed and what I anticipate as its result. It is a bit of psychological shorthand, often inspired by the pace in which we try to process information/experience these days. However, the price of this convenience is that we might not look deeply enough into the act and its initiator to recognize their true character. After all, it is primarily the motivation/intention of any action that will determine its final nature or manifestation.</span><br />
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<strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Look within the mind that conceived the goal if you seek the tools to judge the value or success.—Strike a Chord of Silence, CG Walters</span></strong><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Watts">Alan Watts</a> is a philosopher that I have always enjoyed, mostly because of his combination of insight and unwillingness to take anything too seriously—at least that was the persona of his lectures. In an example of assessing the truest nature of one particular action that is easily categorized—political agenda—this eternally relevant quote from his book, “<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Way-Zen-Alan-W-Watts/dp/0375705104">The Way of Zen</a>” seemed particularly pertinent in the world today.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">“It is a basic Confucian principle that <strong>it is [a person] that makes a truth great, not truth that makes [a person] great</strong>. For this reason, ‘humanness’ or ‘human-heartedness’ (jen) was always felt to be superior to ‘righteousness (i), since [people themselves are] greater than any idea which [they] may invent. There are times when [people’s] passions are much more trustworthy than their principles. Since opposed principles, or ideologies, are irreconcilable, wars (ideological or literal) fought over principle will be wars of mutual annihilation. But wars fought for simple greed (as opposed to ideological/corporate greed) will be far less destructive because the aggressor will be careful not to destroy what he is fighting to capture. Reasonable [humans] will always be capable of compromise, but [people] who have dehumanized themselves by becoming blind worshipers of any idea or an ideal are fanatics whose devotion to abstractions makes them enemies of life.”</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">In reading this, I was taken with several points:</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">1) There is at least some benefit to greed (and other ‘bad’ traits, etc.—if we see from a broad enough perspective)</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">2) Ideologies are irreconcilable, but not people</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">3) Blindly following an ideal is dehumanizing</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Also, I would like to restate this great bit of Confucian wisdom:</span><br />
<strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">It is [a person]--their true nature, and therefore their intention--that makes a truth great, not truth that makes [a person] great.</span></strong><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">For those of you who would like a quick re/introduction to Alan Watts, try these videos <a href="http://deoxy.org/watts.htm">http://deoxy.org/watts.htm</a></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I don’t remember the specific focus of the conversation that my wife, Kathy, </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">and I were having, but I know it included something about prayer/communication </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">with the Absolute, and something about laughter. We were playing around with </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">that had serendipitously been introduced.
And then Kathy exclaimed, “Laughing is praying!”
It was one of those things that made perfect, undeniable sense the moment I heard it</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">—information that the spirit has always known, even if the conscious mind was unaware.
<b>Time spent laughing is time spent with the Gods. —Japanese proverb</b>
Neither of us had probably ever verbally expressed this insight nor even explicitly </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">entertained it consciously—I know I had not. The moment she said it, I went silent, </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">taking in the depth of this fortunate little gift of wisdom. A wave of realization ran </span><br />
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<b>The one who laughs, Lasts!</b>
I have always loved that saying, and had not doubt of its truth. Science acknowledges </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">that laughter exercises your heart, elevates your mood, suppresses the stress hormones, </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">and boosts your immune system. Up to 80 muscles are exercised during a really good laugh.
Now considering Kathy’s insight, I realized ever more reason why this little saying </span><br />
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<b>Humor is the prelude to faith, and laughter is the beginning of prayer. </b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b>—Reinhold Niebuhr</b>
Not only is laughter benefiting the body in ways that can be studied by science, but it is </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">also bringing body and spirit into communion/alignment with the Absolute, the Tao. It is </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">not surprising that time spent in closer communion with Source would rejuvenate us.
<b>The greatest prayer you could ever pray, would be to laugh every day… —Ramtha</b>
It makes perfect sense that laughter would be one of our surest invitations into audience</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> with the Absolute. In the moment of a sincere laughter, the heart is open, the restrictive mind is lost, and we are completely genuine, naïve as a child. In such laughter, we give </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">ourselves over, fully and unreservedly. Laughter is a true expression of earnest gratitude </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">for life and the experience of our Self.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Laughter could easily be the greatest prayer.
May you laugh heartily and frequently, my dear friends, and feel the union with your </span><br />
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<strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It is an incomplete belief system that does not encompass the very concepts of its contradiction.--Strike a Chord of Silence**</span></strong></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';">The definition of religion has picked up too much heavy baggage. I prefer the term “belief system.”</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';">Otherwise it is only half a truth, constructed in fear of its own demise.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"><br />A belief system should be a nourisher of the believers, else it does not justify the intrusion on the silence. It should give to its adherents not its truth, but provide a sacred environment to realize their own truth.</span><br /><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';">A belief system is a tool to aid a person in producing a result. A belief system is person, relative to a time and need of the individual. A credible belief system is a living, progressing/changing, like the person it serves. </span><br /><br /><strong style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"><span style="font-family: arial;">Never can the tool be more important than the craftsperson.**</span></strong><br />
<strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></strong><span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';">Too often religion is practiced in the absence of these things--a one size fits all attempt. In such improper practice, religion becomes the sarcophagus of a once living truth. In such hands, religion is the rigid remains of what was living and life imbuing, but has a monument to itself and its leaders.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"><br /></span><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Try not to take excessive offense when confronted with another’s beliefs that you cannot abide. We re are often introduced to our own beliefs by defining their conflicts with something we disagree.**</span></strong><br />
<b style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"><br /></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';">If you could design a religion, what would it look like?</span><br /><br /><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Truth is but a resting place until the next revelation **</span></b><br /><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';">Words do not contain truth, but may reflect the truth that you hold within.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';">This is my truth. Only you can determine if there is any value in it for you.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"><br /></span><span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_1525877186">C.G. Walters</a></span><span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/CG-Walters/141937819219574" target="_blank"> </a>primarily writes fiction that focuses on the multidimensionality of our loves and our lives. His current novel, </span><a href="http://sacredvow.dragonsbeard.com/"><span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';">Sacred Vow</span></a><span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"> is a metaphysical novel about a man who responds to the mysterious call of [his soulmate], opening the way to redefinition of both himself and his understanding of the world around him…Highly recommended. —Midwest Book Review.</span><br />
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comes in infinite forms. The consistent element is an immersion (into the
activity/inactivity) beyond thought, where we are in communion with self and
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I can only be open by emptying out the clutter of distractions that I have periodically collected without noticing. When I am in this state, it seems my attention is scattered over my accumulation of mental/emotional trinkets that have magnetically attached themselves to me. I am unable to <a href="http://kathmandau.blogspot.com/2010/09/find-your-center-find-your-peace.html" target="_blank">find my center</a>. I am as a dancer out of balance, awkward, stumbling, likely to injure myself or others (in body, heart or spirit) if I continue that way.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Not surprisingly, in the times when I am unavailable to truly be open to others, I am also unavailable to be open to my authentic self.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">An old story tells of an individual with a very busy mind going to talk with a teacher about Zen. The teacher listened intently and began to make tea as this fellow talked on about his thoughts, concerns, wishes, and imaginings. When the tea was ready, the master began to pour into her visitor's cup. Once the cup was full, she kept on pouring. Eventually, the fellow could watch no more and broke from his soliloquy to say: "Stop, stop! The cup is overfull. No more can go in!"</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The teacher responded: "Like this cup, you are full of all manner of yourself. How can I show you Zen unless you first empty your cup?"</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Oddly enough, it seems that most often the things I have so filled my attention with are not even things that I find that interesting—in fact much to the contrary—bills coming due, aggravations of the workday, things that have not gone as I planned, and dreams for the future. Each of these were things I needed to consider, but forgot to “put them down” once I had given them due consideration. Now and again, I am forced to realize the buildup, and do a thorough housecleaning—heart and mind—thinking the job is done—no need to concern myself with that for a while. However, without regular tidying/emptying, the next think I know the cup if full again and I am not taking in what anyone else is saying, not perceptive of the feelings of those around me (or myself).</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">For me, the best way of <a href="http://kathmandau.blogspot.com/2010/09/find-your-center-find-your-peace.html" target="_blank">emptying my cup</a> is either mediation or a walk in nature. Anything that will allow me to be completely passive will do it, allowing the clouds to come and go, without comment, concern, or contemplation—just a submissive lake beneath them, neither added to nor subtracted from by their reflection.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">What helps you stay open?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">What practices help you keep an open mind or stay open to the thoughts and feelings of others?</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Words do not contain truth, but may reflect the truth that you hold within.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">This is my truth. Only you can determine if there is any value in it for you.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.cgwalters.com/">C.G. Walters</a> primarily writes fiction that focuses on the multidimensionality of our loves and our lives. His current novel, <a href="http://sacredvow.dragonsbeard.com/">Sacred Vow</a> is a metaphysical novel about a man who responds to the mysterious call of [his soulmate], opening the way to redefinition of both himself and his understanding of the world around him…Highly recommended. —Midwest Book Review.</span><br />
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